Improvement in powders for cleaning metals



UNITED STATES PATENT DFFIGE.

JAMES H. MUSGRAVE AND JOHN M. BEIDEL, OF CHAMBERSBURG, PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN POWDERS FOR CLEANING METALS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,409, dated May 7, 1872.

Specification describing a certain compound called Compound Cleaning-Powder, invented by JAMES H. MUSGRAVE and JOHN M. BEIDEL, of Ohambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, to be used in cleaning tin-ware, copper-ware, brass-ware, and all kindsof metal were used for cooking purposes, and for scrubbing floors and other wooden work, 860.

The nature of the invention of the said MUS- GRAVE and BEIDEL consists in mixing whiting, Wood ashes, soda-ash, and soap, dissolved in water, either cold or warm.

To prepare the compound cleaning-powdcr, take two ounces of good soap and four ounces of soda-ash; mix them together, and dissolve them in a gill or two of water, either cold or Warm. VVit-h this solution mix four ounces of wood ashes and six ounces of whitin g. The compound is then ready for use.

JAMES HENRY MUSGRAVE. JOHN M. BEIDEL.

Witnesses CALVIN M. DUNCAN, THEODORE MCGOWAN. 

